What updater is the most annoying?

Adobe Updater

Adobe is not only famous for its great software that became de-facto standard of the industry. The side effect of its populaity is that it is a common target for attacks. This is an official position describing excessive frequency of Adobe software updates.

Known Update Targets

Adobe Acrobat-Reader

Flash Player

Adobe AIR (coming soon)

Adobe Creative Suite (coming soon)

What Adobe update is the most annoying?

Category: Adobe, Total votes: 521

Reader (176)Flash (137)AIR (10)Creative Suite (56)Other (10)All (132)

Official Ways for Disabling

Adobe offers several official ways of disabling Adobe software updates. See [1] for disabling Acrobat and Reader updates, [2] for disabling Flash updates, [3] and [4] for disabling updates of Creative Suite with versions 3-4 and 5 respectively.

Support by Update Freezer

Adobe Acrobat-Reader Updater (Acrobat 9.2 and Reader 8.1.7 and later) is disabled/enabled via registry as described in [6].

Flash Player Updater (Flash Player 8 or later) is disabled/enabled via mms.cfg file as described in [2].

Adobe AIR Updater is not supported.

Adobe Creative Suite Updater is not supported.

Drawbacks of Update Freeze

By disabling automated updates you have a risk to stay unprotected from vulnerabilities covered by regular maintenance updates of software. This is especially important for Adobe software since it is the biggest attack vendor for the latest viruses. See [5] for more information.